Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-19

to-day the death of the five faithful ones
OF whom the world was not worthy,
what shall say of them? Alas, that
they were so far away from me. |
would that | could have put my arms
about them once before they died and
comforted them with my love.
ALAS for that beautiful souled boy.
Louis Lingg; driven from his own coun-
ize it in this boasted land of the free, dy-
ing in despair of it at the hands of its
enemies, Would to God that he had
been my son, that | might have stayed
his too eager-hasting feet and saved him
from his despair and kept him for the
world, to bless it with a life devoted to
the welfare of mankind.
Noble, even if erring youth, of whom
his jailer testified with tears of tender
regret-that he was loving, gentle, pure
and true. Hail-and farewell.
"Alas for that faithful one. Parsons
our countryman also gentle and true,
of noble blood, impatient of wrong and
that endured it not; manly in his refusal
| to ask mercy for what he felt to be right
doing; doomed to an illegal death for his
manliness: high, holy, faithful soul.
Hail-and farewell.
Dear friends, as look about me and
abroad through this wide land, see
| sight that makes me shudder. see the
workers struggling for their right. |
see them meeting in legal assemblage to
demonstrate against wrong and violence
at the hands Of their oppressors. | see a
police mob, unauthorized rush with
murderous hands of illegal violence to
| disperse them.
81 see a destructive weapon of defence
thrown by some frenzied hand into the
midst of that ruthless mob, see them
stagger, then turn again, rush upon the
unresisting crowd and empty their re-
yolvers among them, pursuing with re-
| lentless fury as long as one remaining de-
fenceless citizen could be found on whom
| to wreak their vengeance. see the
| leaders Of that unresisting assemblage
arrested by the remnants of the same po-
lice mob that had attacked it, brought to
a mockery of trial. and condemned to
Lynch for the crime of the mob.leader
Boniield see the judiciary, the high
est tribunals of the land, in their cups,
their lusts, their livery, trifing with
truth, playing at "toss up with justice,
making jest, a solemn mockery of con-
stitutional law, betraying, wantonly,
constitutional freedom.
81 see Christian church that calls
Jesus the Faithful One, its Lord and
master; that processes to follow Him and
practice His teachings. see this church
OF Christian heather priests crying once
again, as it has done so many times be-
fore, for the life of the innocent, for the
blood of those seven martyrs to fidelity
to their sense of right, shouting damn
ably, as of old, in the ears of the powers
that be; away with them! Cruelty
them! Cruelty Them
81 see multitude of men under en-
slavement Of lust for Iucre, of mad thirst
for ill-got wealth, traders in human life,
liberty and happiness plunging in mad
fright and fury upon self-destruction.
| Aye, in the blind iierceness of their mis-
taken frenzy putting privily to death the
noblest, purest most unselfish of their
| fellows.
"Alas, they have crucified the faithful
one afre h, and put our country beloved,
fought for, looked to for refuge one time
by the oppressed Of every land-to open
shame before the world. Oh, liberty
how many crimes have men committed,
aye, do they still commit in thy dear
name"
Carl Friede made strong speech,
and his words were appreciated by
the people. He said:
"FELLow CITIzENs-Th press of this
country calls these men foreign crimi-
mails. (Hisses.) When these men were
used as tools by the American capitalists
to cut under the wages of American la
Dor they were not foreign criminals.
| Great applause have not wept before
to-day since the revolution of the com
mune in France. Since that time have
thought it unmanly to weep, but say
that in this cou.ltry of the free we have
put to shame Russian despotism to day.
| Tremendous applause and cheers1 Our
| government has been everlastingly dis
graced. (Applause.) Our government
| has been prostituted to capitalism.
Great applause 1t is this that now
causes the tears TO flow down my
| cheeks.
"Our forefathers said that every man
should have the right to bear arms.
| (Cheers) Why should we carry arms?
SO that if in any way gang of criminals
and cut-throats should arise and obtain
possession of our government and try to
take away their rights and oppress the
mass of working people we might rise
and crush them. Tremendous applause
and cheers.) If these men had been
dressed in the garb of Powderly they
never would have been within the shad-
ow of the gallows. Cheers and Kisses
"You never will achieve your rights
by the ballot. Since this crime has been
committed on American labor it shows
| that the hallnf has no nnwar n'haers